What might societies need to do in order to avoid destruction?

Literary modernism was marked by a sense of loss of meaning and impending doom—at both an individual/psychological level (dehumanization, alienation) and a social/cultural/global level (institutional collapse, apocalypse).

Write an argumentative essay of approximately 750 words arguing what kind(s) of antidote(s) to this predicament that Modernist writers suggest, through their poems, fiction, and/or drama. What can human beings do to stave off these destructive forces and find some kind of fulfillment? What might societies need to do in order to avoid destruction?

Discuss the current issues surrounding monuments and memorials as contested works of American visual culture.

Discuss the current issues surrounding monuments and memorials as contested works of American visual culture.

In the United States, there is currently a great deal of controversy over monuments and memorials in the South – the former Confederate States of America – centered on the Civil War. The issues surrounding these works have become particularly heated since events in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. The following two tasks ask you to think and write critically about this current debate.

What social problems have been created, in both the short and long term, by the difference between supply or water and the need for water?

What is happening to the world’s water supply?

2. What social problems have been created, in both the short and long term, by the difference between supply or water and the need for water? In other words, who has water and who does not and what are the politcal and social consequences of that reality?

3. What does the privatization of water mean?

4. What are some of the actions individuals and groups are taking?

5. How does all of this impact us?